Reading Time: 3 minutes The province’s high electricity prices – driven by wrong-headed policies – are responsible for a staggering 75,000 manufacturing job losses
Author: Ross Mckitrick
Ross R. McKitrick is a Professor of Economics and CBE Fellow in Sustainable Commerce at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate policy, and a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute. His background in applied statistics has also led him to collaborative work across a wide range of topics in the physical sciences including paleoclimate reconstruction, malaria transmission, surface temperature measurement and climate model evaluation.
Take a deep breath: Canada’s air quality is much improved
Reading Time: 3 minutes Data indicates it is time for policy-makers to consider regulatory relief rather than a further tightening of pollution standards
It’s official – Ontario’s coal phase-out was all for nothing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Phasing out coal had almost no effect on Ontario’s air pollution levels – and the government knew this was likely to be the case
Energy conservation programs in Ontario waste of time, money
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ontario taxpayers and ratepayers left paying even higher bills because of Ontario’s conservation programs